Unit #3

4/19/12:

1. Review The Year One, p. 6-112. Write a question which asks for a conclusion--with information drawn from 2 sources.Answer the question.3. Read p. 11-154. Make an inference.5. Use your own thinking.6. UpFront Magazine6. Prep for Friday Test

4/18/12: Open Notebooks. Find any notes you may have on Roman City.

1. Pre-writing activity2. Follow-up writing prompt:

What have we learned from the Romans about cities?

Did they do anything better in their cities than we do?

Do we do anything better than them?

What could we improve about our cities today?

3. The Year One

Check homework

Ask a "literal" (factual) question from p. 1-5

SSR: Read (highlight and code) p. 6-11

Ask and answer a question that requires a conclusion. p. 7-11

4. Prep for test: Write definitions on cards.

4/17/12: UpFront Magazine: Flip around, write a quick reflection in your journal.Note: Test on Friday. Test is attached to the left sidebar. Same procedure as usual.1. The Year One

1. Finish "Agnes" Guided ReadingParagraph: What laws should the government have about marriage, love, sex, child bearing? What laws should they not have? Use examples from Agnes' story to make your point.

What is the purpose of marriage? Meghan

What thoughts should go into the decision to get married? Damian

What are the responsibilities of married people to each other? Niki

What moral rules should we have about marriage? Leah

What laws should we have about marriage? Allie

Should divorce be allowed? If so, when? Merima

What are the responsibilities of people to each other when they get divorced? Alyssa

1. Quiz on Friday reading2. Pericles Speech: Extra Credit opportunity3. SSR (if necessary)4. Continue Rome video5. HW: Prepare to write the essay on Pericles--you will answer it tomorrow in class. Choose one of the following questions:

Essay:Briefly summarize
Pericles Funeral Oration and the things he admired about Athens.To what extent might he be talking about the United States?Comment on one section of the speech which
you admire and one that you do not admire.

Essay:Explain
the context* ofPericles Funeral
Oration. Choose two things he admired about Athens
and apply them to the United
States today.To what extent are American values similar to
or different from ancient Greek values?

Essay:In an
essay, explain the context* ofPericles
Funeral Oration and summarize the values he admired in ancient Athens.Use those values to either support or oppose
the US war in Afghanistan.

*Context
means setting.When, where and why did
he give the speech?In one or two
sentences, tell what it was about.

4/6/12: Sub Plan: 1.SSR:Sustained Silent Reading

Students
may choose either the maroon or the blue book, chapter 6 from the back shelf

Use
outlines provided.

Read
quietly, individually, and take notes for 30 minutes.

There
will be a quiz on Monday on these notes.

2.Video: Rome:
The Ultimate Empire

Watch
and answer questions

4/5/12 Open and date notebooks. Review character lists from yesterday.

1. One more character example

2. Discuss character traits--compare to Buddhism, 10 Commandments. How are these different? Reflection: describe one similarity and one difference between these values systems.

3. Pericles presentations.

notes

discussion

prepare to write essay

Tomorrow (with sub):

SSR Text on Rome

Video on Rome

Monday: Quiz on SSR notes

4/4/12:

1. Finish Pericles summaries, posters2. Aristotle: Character traits

4/3/12 Do Now: Fill out card on yesterday's class: On the Pericles Speech: What went well? What didn't go well?

3/30/12 Do Now: Open and Date Notebooks. What makes a speech effective, memorable, important? Respond to this video.1. Pericles Funeral Oration: details on project, sample presentation2. Begin individual, group work3/29/12 Do Now: Open and Date Notebooks.

1. Textbook reading: In your notebook,

Write down what happened in the Persian Wars and in the Peloponnesian War (2-3 sentences each)

Compare these wars (one for each) to something--anything--as long as it is a thoughtful comparison.

2. What makes a speech effective, memorable, important?

3. Pericles Funeral Oration: details on project, sample presentation

4. Begin individual, group work

3/28/12 Do Now: Open and Date Notebooks.

1. Greek Revival Architecture Quiz2. Review Maps3. Quiet Reading: Your choice--read, identify, and comment on as many topics as you can in 20 minutes.

Topic

Blue Bookpage

Maroon Book page

Pericles

114-115

55, 63

Democracy

114

55, 63

Persian Wars

113

60

Marathon

113

60

Thermopylae (The 300)

114

60

Battle of Salamis

114

60

Golden Age of Athens or Age of Pericles

114

62

Thales

?

65

Socrates

117

65

Plato

118

65

Aristotle

118

65

4. Begin Pericles Project.

3/27/12 Do Now: Open and Date Notebooks.

10 points if done within 1 minute

0 points if not done within 1 minute

1. Look over yesterday's reading and notes. Write a few sentences about what looks interesting and what does not look interesting about Greece. Give reasons for your interest or lack of interest.2. Return HW, check grades. Quarter Ends Friday!3. Continue Greek Revival Architecture4. Map of Greece

3/26/12: Do Now: Open and date notebooks. 10 Point Notebook Entry: Take UpFront Magazine. Read the article on pages 6-7. Answer the questions in your notebook. You must be reading, and your answer to question 1 must be in your notebook by the time the song ends.2. SSR Ancient Greece.

Make a prediction. Guess the answer to the True or False questions before you read.

Then take a book and read the section. Write down the correct True or False answers.

Write some information on each topic in the space provided.

3. Greek Architecture3/23/12: Do Now: Open and date notebooks. 10 Point Notebook Entry: Listen to the music. Answer this question: Is this guy amazing? Yes or No. Your answer must be in your notebook by the time the song ends.